Oct 2, 2013
You know, one day I hope I can write a positive story about HTC, because right now it's just one piece of bad news after the other. Last week, the U.S. International Trade
Apple's iPhone 5s is the first smartphone on the market to feature a 64-bit processor. According to benchmarks, it's twice as fast as the previous A6 chip in the iPhone 5, which
Oct 1, 2013
Wireless charging is supposed to be awesome, futuristic, and dare I say it, revolutionary, but why hasn't it taken off? Long story short, there are competing standards that are, of course, incompatible with each
Later this month, Samsung has promised that they'll unveil their first phone to use the company's new flexible AMOLED technology. They haven't provided any details about the device, so for all we
Sep 26, 2013
Year after year, companies have shoved more and more megapixels into devices that get larger and larger, but at the same time are becoming dangerously anorexic. When building a phone with a camera sensor that
Sep 25, 2013
Most of whatever Apple does, Samsung quickly copies. Sometimes their implementation of an Apple idea is actually better than the original, but most of the time they stumble. Case in point, today's announcement of
For as long as I can remember, Samsung has been demoing bendable OLED screens at various tradeshows. A video my old colleagues from IntoMobile uploaded in January 2011 (see below) is proof of that. Now
Sep 24, 2013
Samsung is one of the few companies out there that have the benefit of producing a bunch of their components in-house. Samsung phones use Samsung chips, Samsung screens, Samsung batteries, Samsung cameras, you get
The cycle of the computer industry can best be described as this: hardware gets faster, which lets software do more, but then hardware gets even more faster, so again, software improves. We all say that
Sep 23, 2013
Apple is a company that very rarely does anything "first", instead opting to wait for technology to mature before using it in their products. That changed with the retina screen in the iPhone 4, but
Sep 19, 2013
Hats off to Apple, they're the first company to ship a phone with a 64-bit processor. Given the rapid pace of innovation in the mobile space, I'll be shocked if we don'
Sep 18, 2013
NVIDIA is a company that made a name for themselves with graphics cards for personal computers. The computer industry being in the terrible shape that it's in, the company decided to invest in chips
Sep 12, 2013
The iPhone 5s that was announced just a few short days ago comes with a world's first, a 64-bit chip. What does that even mean? Do you remember when 64-bit computers came
Sep 11, 2013
The 2013 Nexus 7 comes with either 16GB or 32GB of storage. That's not enough. Samsung's tablets come with memory card slots so you can add 64GB of storage. That's still not
Sep 10, 2013
Earlier this year, when Samsung announced the Galaxy S4, they said it would come in two versions. One powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600, the other powered by the company's very own Exynos 5
Sep 9, 2013
Qualcomm's Snapdragons get all the attention, but Samsung knows a thing or two about making chips for smartphones. Unfortunately, they haven't been able to successfully put their Exynos chips inside devices that sell
Sep 6, 2013
Kristin Taylor is a name you're probably not familiar with, but she's been with Qualcomm for 15 years, and most recently served as the company's head of analyst relations. According to DigiTimes,
Sep 5, 2013
Binning the CPU and GPU is a pretty common phenomenon in the PC industry. When a certain chip fails to reach a desired clock speed, or has stability issues running at those clock speeds, the
